Eddie Muller

Acting

Eddie Muller

Born

1958-10-15 (68)

Place of birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

26 titles

Eddie Muller is an American writer based in San Francisco. He is the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation and hosts the weekly film noir showcase "Noir Alley" on Turner Classic Movies.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 10 titles

Tab Hunter Confidential poster
7.2

Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first hand, for the first time, what it was like to be a studio manufactured movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and the consequences of being someone totally different from his studio manufactured image.

Tab Hunter Confidential

2015

Borsalino City poster
7.5

The history of the birth of an icon, the Borsalino hat. From the factory where it was conceived in a small Italian town, to the glamorous world of Hollywood.

Borsalino City

2016

American Grindhouse poster
6.7

This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment.

American Grindhouse

2011

Freeing “Trapped” poster
NR

Film noir expert Eddie Muller and others discuss the classic film Trapped.

Freeing “Trapped”

2019

Los Angeles Film Noir poster
6.5

A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Film Noir

2015

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NR

Documentary about the use of 3-D technology in Inferno (1953) and the advent of CinemaScope, in 1953 in the film The Robe (1953).

A New Dimension in Noir: Filming Inferno in 3D

2017

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NR

Documentary on the making of the film, from script to noir classic, produced by Steven Smith and the Film Noir Foundation.

Love Is a Roller Coaster: Woman on the Run Revisited

2016

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NR

The documentary covers the origins, history and curious stories behind the production along with a perceptive reading of the film.

The Cost of Living: Creating the Prowler

2011

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NR

CZAR OF NOIR details the history of noir in American cinema – but also reveals the obsessed, personal side to Eddie Muller: how he was first introduced by his father, a San Francisco journalist who specialized in boxing, to a world that was purely “noir.” Eddie went on to write five non-fiction books about the history of noir and is also author of the best-selling autobiography of actor Tab Hunter.

The Czar of Noir: Eddie Muller Steps From the Shadows

2010

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NR

Behind the scenes of "The Man Who Cheated Himself" (1950)

The Man Who Cheated Himself-Revisited

2018

2000s · 5 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky poster
NR

A portrait of blacklisted writer-director Abraham Polonsky.

Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky

2026

Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky poster
NR

A portrait of blacklisted writer-director Abraham Polonsky.

Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky

2026

Mau Mau Sex Sex poster
6.3

A documentary about the history of exploitation films that focuses on the careers of legendary producers David F. Friedman and Dan Sonney.

Mau Mau Sex Sex

2001

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NR

A documentary by Steven C. Smith and Eddie Muller exploring the life and work of author Cornell Woolrich.

Nightmare: The Life and Films of Cornell Woolrich

2022

The Grand Inquisitor poster
6.0

A young woman (Dashe) discovers a cache of used books that she believes holds clues to the solution of decades-old crimes. When the authorities dismiss her, she takes matters into her own hands, ringing the doorbell of Hazel Reedy (Hunt), a lonely recluse who may or may not be the widow of America's most notorious serial killer. Their cross-generational confrontation, played out in real time, leads to an unexpected and shocking conclusion.

The Grand Inquisitor

2008

The Grand Inquisitor poster
6.0

A young woman (Dashe) discovers a cache of used books that she believes holds clues to the solution of decades-old crimes. When the authorities dismiss her, she takes matters into her own hands, ringing the doorbell of Hazel Reedy (Hunt), a lonely recluse who may or may not be the widow of America's most notorious serial killer. Their cross-generational confrontation, played out in real time, leads to an unexpected and shocking conclusion.

The Grand Inquisitor

2008